Kirito is one to Bryce Papenbrook: he was once a virtual reality gamer named Shugo Kunisaki of .hack//Legend of the Twilight who happens to have the same problem with the video game system as Kirito. Kirito's Spriggan avatar also looks like Rin Okumura of Blue Exorcist, another character voiced by Bryce Papenbrook.

Older Than They Think: Most people starting Sword Art Online will think the series was inspired by the .hack series when in reality both series started around the same time in 2002. Sword Art Online was originally meant as an entry for the Dengeki Novel Prize contest but Reki Kawahara didn't submit it because it exceeded the page limit so he published it as a webnovel under the pseudonym Fumio Kunori. It was only after the popularity of his second novel series Accel World that his publishers convinced him to release Sword Art Online as an light novel in 2009.

No Export for You: Averted with most of its properties, except for the first SAO game though it has been included in the second game released overseas and the social network game.

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